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Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) by 013a on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:01PM (#23081483)
Their marketing site is amazingly beautiful. Their actual application sites are barely customized bootstrap templates.

And I wouldn't have it any other way. Marketing websites should be flashy to draw people in. But, when the rubber hits the road, I want functionality, power, and performance.

Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) by jksmith on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:42PM (#23081950)
Functionality, power, perfomance, no unicorns, no FUD, low bs factor: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

And a fraction of the design costs!

Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) by nine_k on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @05:13PM (#23085130)
Not mobile-friendly.

Otherwise, nicely communicates the idea to be from 1990s.

Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) by niknetniko on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:49AM (#23090309)
Works for me, what's not mobile friendly about it?
Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) by Zenbit_UX on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:00PM (#23087531)
Communicates intense boomerism.

> And a fraction of the design costs! Indeed

Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) by FpUser on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:04PM (#23082220)
OMG. You made my day. Beautiful.
Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) by stronglikedan on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:19PM (#23081685)
I'll add data-density to the application site wishlist. I wish it were easier to customize Bootstrap in that direction.
Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) by arcturus17 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:19PM (#23083031)
What does data density mean? Having as much data as possible per unit of space?
Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) by stronglikedan on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:25PM (#23083816)
Yes, exactly. E.g., a datagrid showing, say, only a dozen rows in a full screen browser on a 1080p screen, when it can easily show 2-3x that many and still be perfectly readable. For entertainment/marketing/whatever sites, a dozen rows may be fine, but for a business app, it's frustrating. And sure you can just zoom out, but you still have the same data-to-whitespace ratio, just with unreadably small text.

It also seems like Bootstrap (at least previous versions) makes it unnecessarily hard to get good data density without heavily customized CSS - something that kind of defeats the purpose of using Bootstrap in a business app.

Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) by arcturus17 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @04:18PM (#23084494)
Yea, I'm having the same problem with a React-MaterialUI business dashboard that I'm building.

Is there a good framework for this?

Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) by madjam002 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:52AM (#23089324)
I’m using BlueprintJS for a startup I’m working on and it’s great for this reason, components that are purpose built for data density.

https://blueprintjs.com/

It is not meant for mobile but can be made to work. If you want a mobile first experience I’d use something else though.